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Elon Musk has been very critical of OpenAI's switch from a non-profit focused on AI safety to a for-profit competing with Tesla.

It's why he fell out and left OpenAI despite investing $100 million to start it.

I'd say he's well aligned with Ilya's position. Early on I wondered if he was an instigator of the entire board coup.

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He left because they didn't allow him to be in charge.

Musk left in 2018 after disagreements over the future of the company. In 2019 OpenAI started their 'OpenAI LP' for-profit entity. It seems entirely reasonable that the profit vs mission motive that seems to be driving this issue, is also what drove Musk to leave.

Come on now, does it sound like Musk to you to leave due to the prospect of profit? Surely there was some kind of power struggle there that he couldn't win, and the mission thing was a good story to tell others.

https://www.semafor.com/article/03/24/2023/the-secret-histor...

> And Musk proposed a possible solution: He would take control of OpenAI and run it himself.

The problem is Elon's approach to alignment as presented during x.ai launch is pretty different to what Ilya says and as far as I can tell pretty naive on top of that.

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